A Repository for C. A. Howard's Brain Traffic

Da Luigi, the restaurant in this photo, is not far from the Blue Grotto on Capri. If I had only one afternoon to live, I think I would like to spend it here. Drift on in to the little cove in the boat you've hired for the day, drop anchor, and await the restaurant's launch that will bring you in to the sunbathing area. This is where I like to look around to see if my future wife is in attendance. From there, a chatty Italian waiter will escort you to your table, where you are encouraged to while away the afternoon over delicious food, wine, and plates of olives, prosciutto, and parmigiano.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

This woman is not Muslim, Christian, or Jew, but a self-professed atheist, so she has no particular religious axe to grind. The points she makes about terror and tolerance, violence and nonviolence, are inescapable and true. For instance:

"The Jews have come from the tragedy of the Holocaust, and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror. . . . We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant."